Hi, Janina here with a strong plus one to Chris on the importance of accessible control of a failing machine. I'm a user of linode.com. I've been their customer for nearly a decade. On Linode one can achieve console access over ssh using something called lish: https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/using-the-linode-shell-lish/ I would note that lish is full access, including the boot loader stage. Lish is, well it's simply delishous! Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > With a VPS it's more like tou get a virtual machine and you're > > responsible for administering it. You can usually choose the OS > > (usually from popular Linux distributions, but some also provide > > FreeBSD or OpenBSD which I've come to prefer), choose which servers > > you want to run (mail, web-server, database, IRC, whatever), install > > those, and you are responsible for upgrades too. For these, I've been > > pleased with (or heard good things from people I trust about) OVH, > > Vultr, Digital Ocean, and Linode. > > Hi, this is Chris Brannon. > I should mention up front that I work for a VPS hosting company, > Prgmr.com. I've been using their service for 7 years, and I've been an > employee for just over a year. One thing you should definitely consider > when buying VPS service is the accessibility of the out-of-band > console. If your system breaks so badly that you cannot connect > to it via SSH to the VPS, you'll need to fix it from an out-of-band > console. If the VPS provider provides this using a VNC > connection, it is completely inaccessible, because a VNC connection just > transmits bitmapped images rather than text. A GUI screen reader like > Orca does not avail here, because those operate at a much higher > level of the GUI stack than the raw bitmap level. Perhaps OCR is the > only recourse when dealing with a VNC connection. > > With Prgmr.com, not only is the out-of-band console in text mode, but > all of the VPS management functions are done through a straightforward > menued text interface. I think many of the people on this list would > really love it. > To that end, I've uploaded a transcript of me working with the > management console for a test VPS: > http://the-brannons.com/prgmr-session.txt > It's a bit too long to attach to this message. > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list